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Distance-weighted city growth.

Diego Rybski¹, Anselmo García Cantú Ros, Jürgen P Kropp

¹Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research-14412 Potsdam, Germany, EU. ca-dr@rybski.de

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

|May 18, 2013

Summary

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This study presents a simple model for urban growth, showing that cities tend to grow near existing developed areas. The model successfully replicates the power-law size distribution and fractal boundaries observed in real-world urban agglomerations.

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Area of Science:

Urban studies
Complexity science
Geographic information science

Background:

Urban agglomerations display emergent properties like Zipf's law (power-law size distribution) and fractality.
Understanding the generative mechanisms of these urban features is crucial for urban planning and theory.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and validate a simplistic model for generating citylike structures based on proximity-biased growth.
To investigate the relationship between model parameters and emergent urban characteristics, specifically size distribution and boundary fractality.

Main Methods:

A single-parameter iterative model simulating urban growth, where new development is attracted to existing inhabited space.
The model's attraction decay with distance is controlled by an exponent (γ).
Analysis of land-cover data for Paris to estimate the parameter γ.

Main Results:

The model successfully reproduces the power-law size distribution characteristic of urban agglomerations.
The model also replicates the fractal nature of the largest cluster's boundary.
Fractality appears independent of the distance-decay exponent (γ) but dependent on the iteration process.

Conclusions:

A simple proximity-based growth model can explain key emergent features of urban agglomerations.
The iterative nature of growth is essential for generating fractal urban boundaries.
The estimated parameter γ≈2.5 for Paris suggests a specific decay rate in urban attraction.